3rd-Eye

3rd Eye is a Chromium extension that helps individuals with visual impairment to have better web browsing experience by summarizing the content of the web page and reading it out loud.

Installation and Usage

1. Clone the repository
2. Open Chrome (or any Chromium) and go to chrome://extensions/
3. Enable Developer mode
4. Click on Load unpacked and select the folder where the repository is cloned, the extension should now be installed
5. Create an environment for python and install the required packages using the following commands:

pip install -r requirements.txt

• You might need to install dependencies for pyttsx3 manually by following the instructions here
• Make sure to install CUDAToolkit and cuDNN (and torch CUDA) if you want to use GPU for inference

6. Run the server using the following command:

python app.py

7. Open the extension and click on the microphone icon to start summarizing the content of the web page